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'Curious Conversations' podcast: Guoliang 'Greg' Liu talks about turning old plastic into soap , articleLiu discussed his journey in sustainability and the innovative process of converting plastic waste into soap.
Date: Nov 04, 2024 -
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New College of Science STEM education center awards instructional teaching grants , articleIn an effort to encourage innovation in teaching methodologies, four projects were selected as grant recipients in the new awards from the Center for Advancing Undergraduate Science Education.
Date: Oct 07, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech students named 2024 Astronaut Scholars , articleCollege of Science students Chloe Nyhart and Stephen Argauer earned spots in the highly competitive 2024 class of Astronaut Scholars.
Date: Sep 26, 2024 -
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Anne M. Brown named Data Science Faculty Fellow , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2016, Brown has continued to focus her research and teaching in the applied data science domain with an emphasis on biomedical and life sciences.
Date: Oct 20, 2023 -
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Carla Finkielstein named Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2005, Finkielstein currently serves as the associate director of research of the Academy of Integrated Science in the College of Science and as interim co-director of the Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance.
Date: Sep 29, 2023 -
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Satoru Emori named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellow , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2017, Emori’s research is in the area of experimental condensed matter physics with a focus on magnetic materials, and his work has been recognized with funding from a variety of sources.
Date: Sep 28, 2023 -
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An unexpected way to upcycle: Plastic waste transforms into soap , articleGuoliang “Greg” Liu of the Department of Chemistry has discovered a new method of recycling plastics — from milk cartons, food containers, and plastic bags — into soap. The method: Heat the long carbon chains in the plastics then quickly cool them.
Date: Aug 10, 2023 -
Video ItemWhat's Your Major? - Nanoscience , video
Nathan shares about his studies in nanoscience and his interest in materials science.
Date: Apr 13, 2023 -
Video ItemWhat's Your Major? - Systems Biology , video
Ben shares why he studies Systems Biology in the Academy of Integrated Science.
Date: Apr 13, 2023 -
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Lauren Childs honored with fellowship by Association for Women in Mathematics and Cornell University , articleThe award grants a mid-career mathematician a residential fellowship in the Cornell University Mathematics Department without teaching obligations.
Date: Mar 09, 2023 -
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In its sixth year, College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund supports wide array of research , articleThis year’s grants exceed $160,000 for projects focused on cancer research, battery materials, inflammatory bowel disease, age-related distractibility, the development of antibiotics, and more.
Date: Oct 18, 2022 -
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Academy of Data Science Discovery Fund awards support interdisciplinary research , articleThe projects supported in this year’s awards focus on the use of data science methods in the fields of geophysics, medicine, and systems biology.
Date: Oct 18, 2022 -
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Students selected for Roanoke’s first undergraduate biomedical research cohort , articleThe students studying in majors in the College of Science are part of the inaugural Integrated Health Sciences and Research Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Sep 22, 2022 -
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Casting for data on microplastics in the ocean , articleWith the new Seale Coastal Zone Observatory, Robert Weiss, a professor of geosciences, aims to model the present and future effects of microplastics on the marine environment and its life.
Date: Sep 02, 2022 -
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Celebrating a summer of science education , articleNearly 160 high school and middle school students attended one of four youth camps, with 46 at Explore Science for 7th-9th graders, and – all geared toward 11th-12th graders – 35 participants at Explore Data Science, 32 at Explore Physical Science, and 45 at Explore Life Science
Date: Aug 19, 2022 -
Video ItemNanoscience training gives teachers big ideas about tiny science , video
Kristen Cox graduated from Virginia Tech in 2016, and has recently returned to campus to participate in the College of Science and their Academy of Integrated Sciences Nanoscience Teacher Training. Activities included hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes. Cox, now a teacher, hopes to bring back what she's learned from the workshops to ignite her students passion for science.
Date: Jun 27, 2022 -
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Neuroscience’s Michael A. Fox to hold I.D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2012, Fox is a nationally recognized neuroscientist and an expert on understanding how neuronal circuits form in the developing brain.
Date: Jun 22, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech nanoscientist seeks to develop thin films with a big payoff , article
Satoru Emori, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, wants to create new thin films made of specially engineered magnetic materials, a project funded by a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CARRER Award.
Date: May 24, 2022 -
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Lauren Childs to create improved models for tracking spread of disease , article
Childs, an assistant professor of mathematics, will use a five-year $550,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop mathematical frameworks that can decipher the dynamics of disease and suggest earlier, more effective interventions to mitigate the spread of disease.
Date: Apr 18, 2022 -
Video ItemUndergraduate lab integrates COVID vaccine development , video
College of Sciences' Chixia Tian has developed a lab course that integrates cutting-edge research and COVID vaccine development into undergraduate teaching. Specifically, it involves undergraduate nanomedicine majors learning how to fabricate liposomes and load DNAs into the liposomes.
Date: Mar 25, 2022
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